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So I downloaded the sheet music and started playing.
You need to understand that everyone who helps you on your journey is playing a huge role in getting you to your goals.
If you wanted to, and I know you're just playing devil's advocate, but if you wanted to sell secrets to another country, which he could have done and become extremely rich doing so, the last thing you would do is take those secrets and give them to journalists and ask journalists to publish them, because it makes those secrets worthless.
She went to see the doctor and they told her it was a normal injury for someone who had been playing tennis for almost 30 years.
She never smoked a cigarette, she never drank alcohol, and she had been playing sports for almost half her life.
Just as personal computers or the Internet or smartphones leveled the playing field for entrepreneurship, politics or education, recent advances have leveled it up for biotech progress as well, and that is allowing multidisciplinary teams like ours to try to tackle and look at these problems with new approaches.
And I discovered that while I'd been busy playing business games, there'd been this incredible revolution in so many areas of interest: cosmology to psychology to evolutionary psychology to anthropology to ... all this stuff had changed.
This campfire dynamic is what's playing out in cities, not just in the US, but all around the world: East London; the east side of Paris is this way; East Jerusalem.
So he started playing around with mobile activism.
And here's a strange thing: Unlike an increasing number of Americans who are working and living and playing with people who think exactly like them because we then become more rigid and extreme, opportunity-makers are actively seeking situations with people unlike them, and they're building relationships, and because they do that, they have trusted relationships where they can bring the right team in and recruit them to solve a problem better and faster and seize more opportunities.
They won by playing with people's fears.
JK: So the favela was not only the place where this idea started: it was also the place that made it possible to work without a master plan, because these communities are informal — this was the inspiration — and in a communal effort, together with the people, you can almost work like in an orchestra, where you can have a hundred instruments playing together to create a symphony.
From Grizzly Bear in the shower to Sigur Ros playing in a Parisian cafe.
From Phoenix playing by the Eiffel Tower to Tom Jones in his hotel room in New York.
From Bon Iver playing with some friends in an apartment in Montmartre to Yeasayer having a long night, and many, many, many more unknown or very famous bands.
And if you thought that these two were entirely, fully balanced between these two options, you might consider the fact that this is really a game that we're playing.
Now, this is the game we're playing against the bacteria, except we're not the cheetahs, we're the gazelles, and the bacteria would, just in the course of this little talk, would have had kids and grandkids and figured out how to be resistant just by selection and trial and error, trying it over and over again.
This algorithm before has never seen a man in a black shirt playing a guitar.
Again it's playing.
And then, they have the power, which means, they can and do suspend and expel kids so that we're not playing school, they really decide.
I have a playing card in my hand.
Chimpanzees laugh differently if they're being tickled than if they're playing with each other, and we might be seeing something like that here, involuntary laughter, tickling laughter, being different from social laughter.
So here's a quieter experiment where we filmed some earphones plugged into a laptop computer, and in this case, our goal was to recover the music that was playing on that laptop from just silent video of these two little plastic earphones, and we were able to do this so well that I could even Shazam our results.
He was playing on the basketball team and making C's and B's.
Nick just left on a business trip, and Heather is playing on his iPad with the boys, when she sees a message appear on the screen: "Can't wait to see you." Strange, she thinks, we just saw each other.
When I was growing up, I really liked playing hide-and-seek a lot.
But the violence just careened out of control, and people who were not involved in the violence were getting shot and killed: somebody going to buy a pack of cigarettes at a convenience store, or someone who was sitting at a bus stop just waiting for a bus, or kids who were playing in the park, oblivious to the violence on the other side of the park, but it coming and visiting them.
And the songs that I'm singing tonight are from an album that I just put out called, "Playing Chess," that pays homage to those songs.
I was at this kid's house one time playing GTA, uh, Grand Theft Auto?
No, I don't think I said anything, I just finished playing and went home.
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